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1 Y harás el tabernáculo de diez cortinas de lino torcido, cárdeno, y púrpura, y carmesí; y harás querubines de obra delicada.

2 La longitud de una cortina será de veintiocho codos, y la anchura de la misma cortina de cuatro codos; todas las cortinas tendrán una medida.

3 Las cinco cortinas estarán juntas la una con la otra, y las otras cinco cortinas unidas la una con la otra.

4 Y harás lazadas de cárdeno en la orilla de una cortina, en el borde, en la juntura; y así harás en la orilla de la postrera cortina en la juntura segunda.

5 Cincuenta lazadas harás en una cortina, y otras Cincuenta lazadas harás en el borde de la cortina que está en la segunda juntura; las lazadas estarán contrapuestas la una a la otra.

6 Harás también cincuenta corchetes de oro, con los cuales juntarás las cortinas la una con la otra, y se formará un tabernáculo.

7 Harás asimismo cortinas de pelo de cabras para una cubierta sobre el tabernáculo; once cortinas harás.

8 La longitud de una cortina será de treinta codos, y la anchura de la misma cortina de cuatro codos; una medida tendrán las once cortinas.

9 Y juntarás las cinco cortinas aparte y las otras seis cortinas separadamente; y doblarás la sexta cortina delante de la faz del tabernáculo.

10 Y harás cincuenta lazadas en la orilla de una cortina, al borde, en la juntura, y otras cincuenta lazadas en la orilla de la segunda cortina en la otra juntura.

11 Harás asimismo cincuenta corchetes de bronce, los cuales meterás por las lazadas; y juntarás la tienda, y será una.

12 Y el sobrante que resulta en las cortinas de la tienda, la mitad de la cortina que sobra, quedará a espaldas del tabernáculo.

13 Y un codo de una parte, y otro codo de la otra que sobra en la longitud de las cortinas de la tienda, cargará sobre los lados del tabernáculo de una parte y de la otra, para cubrirlo.

14 Harás también a la tienda una cubierta de cueros de carneros, teñidos de rojo, y otra cubierta de cueros de tejones encima.

15 Y harás para el tabernáculo tablas de madera de cedro estantes.

16 La longitud de cada tabla será de diez codos, y de codo y medio la anchura de la misma tabla.

17 Dos quicios tendrá cada tabla, trabadas la una con la otra; así harás todas las tablas del tabernáculo.

18 Harás, pues, las tablas del tabernáculo: veinte tablas al lado del mediodía, al austro.

19 Y harás cuarenta basas de plata para debajo de las veinte tablas; dos basas debajo de una tabla para sus dos quicios, y dos basas debajo de la otra tabla para sus dos quicios.

20 Y al otro lado del tabernáculo, a la parte del aquilón, veinte tablas;

21 y sus cuarenta basas de plata: dos basas debajo de una tabla, y dos basas debajo de la otra tabla.

22 Y para el lado del tabernáculo, al occidente, harás seis tablas.

23 Harás además dos tablas para las esquinas del tabernáculo en los dos ángulos posteriores;

24 las cuales se unirán por abajo, y asimismo se juntarán por su alto a un gozne; así será de las otras dos que estarán a las dos esquinas.

25 Así que serán ocho tablas, con sus basas de plata, dieciséis basas; dos basas debajo de una tabla, y dos basas debajo de la otra tabla.

26 Harás también cinco barras de madera de cedro, para las tablas de un lado del tabernáculo,

27 y cinco barras para las tablas del otro lado del tabernáculo, y cinco barras para el otro lado del tabernáculo, que está al occidente.

28 Y la barra del medio pasará por medio de las tablas, de un cabo al otro.

29 Y cubrirás las tablas de oro, y harás sus anillos de oro para meter por ellos las barras; también cubrirás las barras de oro.

30 Y alzarás el tabernáculo conforme a su traza que te fue mostrada en el monte.

31 Y harás también un velo de cárdeno, y púrpura, y carmesí, y de lino torcido; será hecho de primorosa labor, con querubines;

32 y has de ponerlo sobre cuatro columnas de cedro cubiertas de oro; sus capiteles de oro, sobre cuatro basas de plata.

33 Y pondrás el velo debajo de los corchetes, y meterás allí, del velo adentro, el arca del testimonio; y aquel velo os hará separación entre el lugar santo y el lugar santísimo.

34 Y pondrás la cubierta sobre el arca del testimonio en el lugar santísimo.

35 Y pondrás la mesa fuera del velo, y el candelero enfrente de la mesa al lado del tabernáculo al mediodía; y pondrás la mesa al lado del aquilón.

36 Y harás a la puerta del tabernáculo una cortina de cárdeno, y púrpura, y carmesí, y lino torcido, obra de bordador.

37 Y harás para la cortina cinco columnas de cedro, las cuales cubrirás de oro, con sus capiteles de oro; y harás de fundición cinco basas de bronce para ellas.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 9659

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9659. 'And there shall be eight boards and their bases [made] from silver' means support in every respect from good and through truth that springs from good. This is clear from the meaning of 'eight' as what is so in every respect, dealt with below; from the meaning of 'boards' as good that lends support, dealt with in 9634; and from the meaning of 'bases [made] from silver' as support provided through truth from good, dealt with in 9643.

[2] 'Eight' means in every respect because this number has the same meaning as two and four, being the product of these when multiplied together. 'Two' and 'four' mean being joined together, completely so, 5194, 8423, 8877, and consequently also mean what is complete, 9103, and therefore what is so in every respect; for what exists in completeness does so in every respect. Another reason why 'eight' means what exists in completeness and in every respect is that since 'a week' means a whole period from beginning to end, 2044, 3845, 'the eighth day' means a complete state, from which a new beginning then commences. This explains why males had to be circumcised on the eighth day, Genesis 17:12; 21:4, for circumcision was a sign of purification from foul kinds of love by means of the truth of faith, 2039, 2046 (end), 2799, 3412, 3413, 4462. The foreskin corresponded to the defilement of good by those kinds of love, 4462, 7045, 7225, and the knife of flint with which circumcision was carried out was a sign of the truth of faith by means of which purification was accomplished, 2039 (end), 2046 (end), 2799, 7044.

[3] What exists in completeness and in every respect is also meant by 'eight' following 'seven' in Micah,

When Asshur comes into our land and treads our palaces we will set up over him seven shepherds and eight princes of men (homo), and they will feed 1 the land of Asshur with the sword; and he will deliver [us] from Asshur. Micah 5:5-6.

'Asshur' stands for reasoning on the basis of one's own intelligence about the Church's forms of good and its truths. Deliverance totally or in every respect from consequent falsity is meant by 'eight princes of men' who will bring destruction, 'princes of men' being the leading truths that rise out of good.

[4] The fact that 'eight' means completeness and in every respect is also clear from an experience I had involving the admission and reception of some communities into heaven, about which see 2130. I saw as many as twelve communities received first, and after them as many as eight more; for people admitted and received into heaven are those who have been purified from earthly things, that is, from all love of them, and have gone on to receive instruction. The number eight on that occasion was a sign of that which was complete.

[5] 'Eight' has a similar meaning elsewhere in the Word, for example where it says that the portico of the gateway was 'eight cubits' long from the house, and that there were 'eight steps' up to the house, in Ezekiel 40:9, 31, 41. The description there is of the new house, by which the Lord's New Church is meant, truths leading to good and from good back to truths being meant by 'the portico' and 'the steps'.

[6] Anyone who does not know that spiritual realities or real things are implied by the numbers used in the Word cannot possibly see any such reality nor thus anything holy in the measures and numbers where the tabernacle, Solomon's temple, and after these the new house, new temple, and new land in Ezekiel, are described, when yet not a syllable in the Word is devoid of spiritual meaning. Let all who have intelligence weigh up in their mind what the measures and numbers in Chapters 40-48 of Ezekiel really mean, also the measures and numbers in John, at Revelation 21:17, where it says that the angel measured the wall of the new Jerusalem, a hundred and forty-four cubits, and that this measure was that of a man (homo), that is, of an angel, and also in the following, besides many other places,

Let him who has intelligence reckon the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man (homo), that is, its number is six hundred and sixty-six. Revelation 13:18.

For more about all numbers in the Word, that they mean spiritual realities or real things, see 482, 487, 575, 647, 648, 755, 813, 1963, 1988, 2075, 2252, 3252, 4264, 4495, 4670, 5265, 5291, 5335, 5708, 6175, 7973, and places where the specific meaning of certain numbers has been shown.

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Arcana Coelestia # 5335

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5335. 'And Joseph was a son of thirty years' means a state when the quantity of remnants was complete. This is clear from the meaning of 'thirty' as a completed number of remnants, dealt with below, and from the meaning of 'years' as states, dealt with in 482, 487, 488, 493, 893. In the Word the number thirty can mean some existence of conflict, or else it can mean a completed number of remnants. The reason why that number has this twofold meaning is that it is arrived at by multiplying five and six, or else by multiplying three and ten. When it is the product of five times six it means some existence of conflict, 2276, because 'five' means some, 649, 4638, 5291, and 'six' conflict, 720, 737, 900, 1709. But when thirty is the product of three times ten it means a completed number of remnants, because 'three' means that which is complete, 2788, 4495, and 'ten' means remnants, 576, 1906, 2284. A composite number implies much the same as the simple ones of which it is the product, 5291. Remnants are the truths joined to good which have been stored away by the Lord in a person's interior parts, see 468, 530, 560, 561, 576, 660, 1050, 1738, 1906, 2284, 5135.

[2] A completed number of remnants is likewise meant by 'thirty' - as it is also by 'sixty', and by 'a hundred' too - in Mark,

The seed which fell into good ground yielded fruit growing up and increasing. One bore thirty-fold, and another sixty, and another a hundred. Mark 4:8, 10.

Each of these numbers, being a multiple of ten, means a completed number of remnants. Also, because no one can be regenerated - that is, permitted to enter into spiritual temptations, by means of which regeneration is effected - until he has received a completed number of remnants, it was therefore laid down that no Levite should carry out any work in the tent of meeting until he was fully thirty years old. Their work or function is also called 'military service', being referred to in Moses as follows,

Take a census of the sons of Kohath from the midst of the sons of Levi - from sons thirty years of age and over, up to sons fifty years of age, everyone coming to perform military service, to do the work in the tent of meeting. Numbers 4:2-3.

Much the same is said regarding the sons of Gershon, and much the same regarding the sons of Merari, in verses 22, 23, 29, 30, and then in verses 35, 39, 43. Of that same chapter in Moses. And something similar is implied where it says that David began to reign when he was a son thirty years of age, 2 Samuel 5:4.

[3] From all this one may now see why the Lord did not make Himself known until He was thirty years of age, Luke 3:23. At that age a completed number of remnants existed with Him, though these remnants which the Lord possessed were ones that He Himself had acquired for Himself. They were also Divine ones and the means by which He united His Human Essence to His Divine Essence and made that Human Essence Divine, 1906. In Him therefore lies the reason why 'thirty years' means a state when the quantity of remnants is complete and why the priests the Levites began to perform their specific functions when they were thirty years old. And because he was to represent the Lord's kingship, David did not begin to reign until he was that same age. For every representative is derived from the Lord, and therefore every representative has reference to Him.

  
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